EPITAPH FOR CLAUDIA PAMPHILE, ROME (?) Alison E. Cooley AEC/ASHL ANChandler.3.50.xml Oxford Ashmolean Museum ANChandler.3.50 AshLI 49

A large rectangular slab framed by triple moulding, of white marble with grey veins (0.60 0.76 0.055). The rear is smoothed. There is a break at the bottom left corner, and a groove roughly in the centre of the top edge for a clamp.

Inscribed upon the front surface, the text is centred on each line. There are triangular interpuncts almost throughout. The final S of Apolaustus in line 3 is carved upon the moulded frame. The front surface of the inscription has been cut back in line 4, on the right side only (IVGI). The word CONIVGI has been re-cut, perhaps to make it more spaced out, to improve the effect of centring.

0.06 (line 1); 0.05 (line 2); 0.046 (line 3); 0.044 (line 4); 0.037 (line 5); 0.037 (line 6); 0.037 (line 7); 0.03 (line 8). Of unknown provenance, it probably originated from Rome. second century AD (use of DM formula and onomastics) (Solin 2003: vol. I, p.137; vol. II p.931, p.982). It was first recorded in Oxford by Prideaux as part of the Arundel Collection, which was given to the University of Oxford by Henry Howard, Earl of Arundel, in 1667 (Prideaux 1676). The Arundel marbles were first displayed in the ‘Garden of Antiquities’ outside the new Sheldonian Theatre from 1668/9 (Sturdy and Moorcraft 1999) and this inscription is visible in the proof-engraving depicting this display in the papers of Henry Aldrich (Vickers 2006: p.40-41). The marbles were subsequently transferred indoors in 1715 to ‘The Marble School’, an upper gallery in the Bodleian Quadrangle. In 1749, they were transferred downstairs to the ground floor in the former School of Moral Philosophy, and at some point then ended up in the basement of the (Old) Ashmolean Museum on Broad Street (now the Museum of the History of Science) (Munby 2013). The Ashmolean Museum in its current location was built behind the University Galleries, was opened in 1894, and finally the University Galleries and Ashmolean were amalgamated by statute in 1908. The epitaph is currently in store. Photograph Photograph Photograph Photograph
dis manibus Claudiae Pamphiles Marcus Ulpius Apolaustus coniugi inconparabili et Claudius Carpimus libertis libertabus que posteris que eorum

To the spirits of the dead of Claudia Pamphile. Marcus Ulpius Apolaustus for his incomparable wife, and Claudius Carpimus for their freedmen and freedwomen and their descendants.

INCOMPARABILI (Hübner in CIL). LIBERTABVSQVE (Prideaux, Maittaire); LIBERTABQ (Maittaire 561).

Claudia Pamphile is commemorated by two men: whereas Ulpius Apolaustus identifies himself as her husband, the relationship with Claudius Carpimus is left unstated, but he may well be her son. The name Pamphiles here appears in the Greek genitive form.

Editions

Prideaux (1676) p.147, no.104; Maittaire (1732) p.37, no.71 + 561; Chandler (1763) p.135, no.50; CIL VI.3 no.15529 [Hübner] (1886).

Online: EDCS-09600405 [accessed 16/09/14].

Chandler R. 1763 Marmora Oxoniensia Oxford Clarendon Press Maittaire M. 1732, 2nd edn. Marmorum, Arundellianorum, Seldenianorum, Aliorumque Academiae Oxoniensi Donatorum London William Bowyer Munby J. 2013 A rare collection: Oxford museums past and present Excalibur: Essays on Antiquity and the History of Collecting in Honour of Arthur MacGregor H. Wiegel and M. Vickers Oxford BAR Int. ser. 2512 75-85 Prideaux H. 1676 Marmora Oxoniensia ex Arundellianis, Seldenianis, aliisque conflata Oxford Solin H. 2003 Die griechischen Personennamen in Rom. Ein Namenbuch (2nd edn) 3 vols Berlin de Gruyter Sturdy D. and N. Moorcraft 1999 Christopher Wren and Oxford’s garden of antiquities Minvera 10.1 25-28 Vickers M. 2006 The Arundel and Pomfret Marbles in Oxford Oxford Ashmolean Museum